Katie Smith

Katie Smith is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She works with adults on common problems like anxiety, depression, and stress. Katie also helps people facing trauma, relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges, and career concerns.

Katie has five years of clinical experience. She has supported survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, military spouses, and people coping with mood and personality disorders. She draws on practical methods to help people manage intense emotions and difficult life events.

Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Katie treats each person as the expert on their life and pairs that perspective with clear strategies. Sessions focus on identifying goals, spotting unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, and building new skills that fit daily life.

She uses cognitive-behavioral techniques alongside approaches that emphasize emotion regulation and present-moment awareness. Katie aims to make therapy useful and doable, with steps people can try between sessions. She explains tools plainly and helps clients practice them until they feel more natural.

If someone wants to begin, Katie asks them to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to her availability. The process is intended to get people into focused work on the problems that matter most to them, like career transitions, relationship patterns, or coping with loss.

How Katie’s approaches translate to online therapy

CBT, or cognitive-behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and behavioral changes. It can help with anxiety, low mood, and career-related stress by breaking problems into small steps and clear skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. It is useful for people who face intense emotions or chaotic relationships and benefits from repeated practice of specific coping tools.

Figuring out the right approach is part of the work. Katie will discuss goals and preferences and collaborate on which methods to emphasize. That means trying tools, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan so it matches the client's needs and daily routine.

Session formats are not specified here, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and let clients practice skills between appointments in real-world settings. Therapists can use session time to teach tools, coach through exercises, and set actionable steps to try between meetings, which keeps progress focused and practical.